Re: [cobalt-users] Why I'll Never do business with Sun Cobalt AGAIN!

["Jamie Martino" <webmaster1@xxxxxxx>]

> You know, this kind of crap worries me. I am a brand new user trying to
> start using this Cobalt RaQ3 as a dedicated machine after using a FreeBSD
> virtual server for a long while. The RaQ3 has crashed a couple of times
> since I brought it online a week ago, but I believe the crashes to be my
> error. I am planning to have this Cobalt run DNS, e-mail and web servers.
> Some friends told me the Cobalt was great, but they never owned one. I
plan
> to install web-based e-mail and run popular programs like PHP, MySQL, etc.
I
> don't want to get 100 customers on it and deal with crashes, I plan
install
> everything and get it running smooth to start and then transfer all the
> customers over. Then minimal system changes after that.
>
> Can someone be honest with me and tell me the RaQ is a good machine that
> should be able to do these things well? If I make reliable backups using
the
> *.raq backup to another server, can it be put back relatively easy? I
mean,
> how much can you trust the restore for server config files? After the last
> crash, I just did a sysreset and restored data. I didn't restore config
> files because the machine was new and didn't have any configuration that
> couldn't be put back in quickly. But when I get 100 customers on there,
how
> well does this work if the server crashes. Has anyone had that experience?
> I'm sure:(
>
> Thanks for the heads up :)

I don't know about RaQ3, but we've had our RaQ4r for about 3 months now and
never had a crash with it..  All patches installed through the web interface
smoothly, webalizer install smoothly..  It runs as our DNS, web, and mail
server...  I'm a newbie to it, only been working with it for since we got
it, but so far any error I did have was a misconfig on my behalf by SSHing
into it and playing with conf files, but nothing that ever crashed the
thing..  And during my free 30 days of support, I had excellent help from
the techs..  Not to mention two separate techs told me even after my 30 days
if they discover that the prob I am having is a RaQ bug, they'll help for
free..  But again, I dunno how the RaQ3...

Just my .0000002 cents...(newbie, not allowed full 2 cents yet)

-Jamie-
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